Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 18:35:39 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <34071f11-d385-c82c-c669-df294583c5e0@example.net> References: <_hycnQxlN5kAphr6nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <7258fd01-44f7-850d-3f69-54b93489f64d@example.net> <69ce04cf-80a7-7170-675f-4165ffedc92b@example.net> <4985abd5-ec8c-44da-0105-0778434959c0@example.net> <27da50fc-f7e3-1462-2bf0-8e234043a319@example.net> <14a614d4-fc6d-2a68-6128-c465a49a73c3@example.net> <-BidndiUDpnKQQ_6nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <2055b2fd-570d-6159-dd88-82aab8101d23@example.net> <7efc79f6-74b9-62c5-8dbb-5595451c7453@example.net> <20489ac0-b3bf-d864-743b-d39cfb9d3e85@example.net> <4ab2f1f9-1030-7dff-77d0-7d159ac88607@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="1110786"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:64787 On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 25/01/2025 09:44, D wrote: >> >> >> On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 23:19:38 +0100, D wrote: >>> >>>> When you did not vote for them, did you then not vote at all, or for >>>> some unpopular candidate who's name never made it to europe? >>> >>> My default 'none of the above' choice is the Libertarian candidate but the >>> LP outdid themselves this year with Chase Oliver. The state LP maintained >>> radio silence. >>> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_Oliver >>> >>> When Trump spoke at the LP convention he said something about the party >>> getting its usual 3%; he was being very kind. They did get 3.28% in 2016 >>> but they are typically less than 1% on national elections. >>> >>> I pay more attention to the House, Senate and local races. The last time >>> the state went to a Democratic president was 1992. That wasn't out of any >>> love for Clinton; rather Perot siphoned off GHW Bush's votes. >> >> Very interesting. There is a libertarian party in sweden. I voted for them >> once or twice in my youth, I think they got 3000 and 3800 votes or so in >> those elections, and then I never bothered since they never showed much >> interest in actually growing, but was more a kind of discussion club. > Libertarianism was very much the province of the soft right - and used to be > what the Tory party mostly were. I would say, in eurospeak, that you are talking about liberalism. Libertarianism was invented to escape from the left apropriating the ism liberalism. > But at some point the entrenched elites decided that people should not really > have freedom or they (the elite) might get 'replaced' > > Which is why we now have a third party topping the polls for the first time > in a 100 years Excellent!